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Friday, February 26, 2010
Saturday, September 1, 2007
They Had The Tea Party - We Have The Internet
Growing tired of the abuses of tyranny, culminating in smothering taxes, a group of colonists broke bricks of tea against ships docked in Boston Harbor, thus sparking the necessary revolution that resulted in our democracy. America was coming along quite well with its ever expanding Constitution, focused always on the improvement of the rights of the American people until one day, it suddenly stopped. This greatest of all nations once rife with worldwide reverence for democracy and all the perks that came with it had come to a screeching halt. America had grown away from the original encroachments that suppressed it under the moralist mindset of the 1700's, tweaking the Constitution whenever it was necessary to bring the country up to date; away from the savagery of arrogant ignorance perpetrated by past oppressive generations, moving always forward, never backward. It was a beauty to behold and Americans held their heads a little higher than everyone else by birthright as they traveled the world proudly and freely.
Americans are no longer as enthusiastic about holding their heads quite as high as they once did, fearful of getting it chopped off as our country is not as revered as it once was when it was moving forward. It is now moving backward, flirting dangerously with the descendants of racial segregation and McCarthyism.
When the present administration came to power, America's credibility began deteriorating. The U.S. is no longer revered by citizens of other nations as we are judged by our policies and our willingness to attack countries for no cause. Bush is ridiculed on late-night television talk shows, but what he's cost the United States is no reason to laugh. Aside from the war, back at home, we have crises after crisis and our government does nothing to protect its own people, so our government worrying about Iraq after we leave somehow lacks sincerity. We should not have invaded that country and Bush knew it. When the American people discovered the false pretense that brought us to invade a country with which we took no issue, we should have left immediately, but that would have lost the president his 9/11 scapegoat, and the money being made by this war for the people who have invested in it, makes it worthwhile to stay as long as we can. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces, says the United States will be in Iraq for another nine to ten years. We can not allow that. If Congress will not take the necessary steps to bring our troops home now, it is once again up to the people. Those of us with young children who will be eighteen in the next nine or ten years already have incentive; all we need is a non-violent means to get our message to the government. We just need a modern day version of a tea party or at least an updated issue of the Pentagon Papers. The blogs are not enough if we just write them and read them. There is so much more to be done.
Americans are no longer as enthusiastic about holding their heads quite as high as they once did, fearful of getting it chopped off as our country is not as revered as it once was when it was moving forward. It is now moving backward, flirting dangerously with the descendants of racial segregation and McCarthyism.
When the present administration came to power, America's credibility began deteriorating. The U.S. is no longer revered by citizens of other nations as we are judged by our policies and our willingness to attack countries for no cause. Bush is ridiculed on late-night television talk shows, but what he's cost the United States is no reason to laugh. Aside from the war, back at home, we have crises after crisis and our government does nothing to protect its own people, so our government worrying about Iraq after we leave somehow lacks sincerity. We should not have invaded that country and Bush knew it. When the American people discovered the false pretense that brought us to invade a country with which we took no issue, we should have left immediately, but that would have lost the president his 9/11 scapegoat, and the money being made by this war for the people who have invested in it, makes it worthwhile to stay as long as we can. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces, says the United States will be in Iraq for another nine to ten years. We can not allow that. If Congress will not take the necessary steps to bring our troops home now, it is once again up to the people. Those of us with young children who will be eighteen in the next nine or ten years already have incentive; all we need is a non-violent means to get our message to the government. We just need a modern day version of a tea party or at least an updated issue of the Pentagon Papers. The blogs are not enough if we just write them and read them. There is so much more to be done.
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